Craig Boddington was the senior contributing editor of our modern gun and ammunition caliber dictionary. Craig was involved in the development and testing of many of these and writes from first hand experience. This dictionary was written exclusively for Wholesale Hunter with unique information found nowhere else.

GUN CALIBER DICTIONARY

Centerfire Handgun

10mm

22 TCM

25 ACP

25 NAA

30 Luger

32 ACP

32 H&R MAG

32 North American Arms

32 S&W

32 S&W Long

32 Short Colt

327 Federal Magnum

357 Magnum

357 Maximum

357 Sig

38 Colt Short

38 Long Colt

38 S&W

38 Short Colt

38 Special

38 Special +P

38 Super Automatic

380 ACP

4.6X30 Heckler & Koch

40 S&W

400 Cor-Bon

41 Colt

41 Remington Magnum

41 Special

44 Auto Mag

44 Colt

44 Rem Magnum

44 Russian

44 Special

45 ACP

45 Auto Rimmed

45 AUTO+P

45 Colt

45 Colt / 410 gauge

45 Glock Automatic Pistol (GAP)

45 Schofield

45 Winchester Magnum

454 Casull

455 Webley

460 Rowland

460 S&W Magnum

475 Linebaugh

480 Ruger

50 Action Express

500 JRH

500 S&W

500 Wyoming Express

7.62 Nagant

7.62X25mm Tokarev

7.63mm Mauser

9mm Luger

9mm Makarov

9mmX18mm Ultra Police

9X21mm

9X23mm Winchester

Centerfire Rifle

17 Hornet

17 Remington

17 Remington Fireball

204 Ruger

218 BEE

22 Hornet

22 Nosler

22-250 Remington

220 Swift

221 Remington Fireball

222 Remington

223 Remington

223 Winchester Super Short Magnum

223 Wylde

224 Valkyrie

224 Weatherby Magnum

225 Winchester

240 Weatherby Magnum

243 Winchester

243 Winchester Super Short Magnum

25 Winchester Super Short Magnum

25-06 Remington

25-20 Winchester

25-35 Winchester

250 Savage

257 Roberts

257 Weatherby Magnum

26 Nosler

260 Remington

264 Winchester Magnum

270 Weatherby Magnum

270 Winchester

270 WSM

275 Rigby

28 Nosler

280 Rem Ackley Improved

280 Remington

284 Winchester

30 Carbine

30 Nosler

30 Remington AR

30 Thompson Center

30-06 Springfield

30-30 Winchester

30-378 Weatherby Magnum

30-40 Krag

300 AAC Blackout

300 H&H

300 Norma Magnum

300 OSSM

300 Remington Short Action Ultra Magnum

300 Remington Ultra Magnum

300 Ruger Compact Magnum

300 Savage

300 Weatherby Magnum

300 Whisper

300 Winchester Magnum

300 Winchester Short Magnum

303 British

303 Savage

307 Winchester

308 Marlin

308 Norma Magnum

308 Winchester

32 Winchester Special

32-20 Winchester

325 Winchester Short Magnum

33 Nosler

338 Federal

338 Lapua Magnum

338 Marlin Express

338 Remington Ultra Magnum

338 Ruger Compact Magnum

338 Winchester Magnum

338-378 Weatherby Magnum

340 Weatherby Magnum

348 Winchester

The 348 Winchester was introduced in 1936 in the Winchester Model 71 lever action, the final version of John Browning's Winchester Model 1886 action. 348 Winchester is the only cartridge the 71 was chambered to, and the 348 was never chambered to other factory rifles. With a fat rimmed case it is one of the fastest and most powerful cartridges ever housed in factory lever actions. Its Model 71 was manufactured until 1958; the 348 Winchester was popular with elk and bear hunters, and its hard-hitting flat-point bullets found favor with big timber deer hunters. In recent years Browning/Winchester have reissued the Model 71 in 348, with the current factory load featuring a 200-grain bullet at 2520 feet per second. — Craig Boddington